![]() We need to figure out how to get it to what we had there. The car that we had at the test felt good – better than what we have now. We will come up with a solution and a plan for tomorrow.” We have to keep a logical approach, keep our heads about us and work the problem to go through all the variables. I have great faith in how we are going to go out and run the race. And of course we have won this race many, many times. We have the best team in the pitlane to do this. But we have won at this event when we’ve been off our fastest competitors. “When you look at the outright lap time, we’re 3.5 to four seconds off and no one wants that. I’m confident that by tomorrow night the engineers will have come up with an answer.” The car feels good, but just isn’t fast enough at the moment. “It looks like we’ll have some homework to do between now and tomorrow’s qualifying. ![]() We’re getting closer to the setup as we go on as I think the car wasn’t ideal for all three drivers to begin with, so we’re dialing it in right now and hope to have a good start to the week.”Īntonio Garcia, No. I did a few longer runs, which meant I had to adapt to the constantly changing track conditions, wet-dry, wet-dry. For me it was also about getting used to the car again, coming straight from America where I had driven the Corvette Daytona Prototype (at Mid-Ohio the weekend prior), readjusting myself to the Corvette C6.R. I had stories about going down the Mulsanne and you get all the dust and dirt from the road cars which have used the road right until a few hours before, so that was a cool experience getting those special feelings everyone has probably gotten for the past 90 years. “It was my first time being the first one on track here in Le Mans. I’d have an out-lap where there was spray and then the next lap it dried, so I didn’t get a real good feel for the wet lines.” We also ran a little bit in the wet early on, but the conditions were changing rapidly all the time. So we still have a little bit of work to do. It seems we’re giving a lot of lap time away in Sector 2, which is the Mulsanne straight, maybe upwards of 1.5 to two seconds. So right now we’re trying to find a good baseline and the work from that. We made some setup changes from the test till now but they didn’t work the way we thought they would. “We’ve been trying to get into our testing program, and we’re still a little bit away from the handling and the setup we thought we were going to have at this point. The Compuware Corvettes return to the track Thursday for a pair of two-hour sessions beginning at 7 p.m. Our guys will use that experience and feedback to improve the car for tomorrow’s final qualifying session.” That is the advantage of having won this race seven times before. Fortunately we know what it takes to win Le Mans, and that is perseverance and endurance. But on the flip side, our competitors enjoyed an advantage on lap times and speeds. “The good news is that we turned a significant number of laps compared to our competitors. “I don’t think anyone is completely happy with the performance today,” said Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing Program Manager. #73 Corvette Racing Corvette C6.R: Jordan Taylor, Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen
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